Family

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
– David O. McKay

“Kneel down to pray.  Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue.  Each is a vital page of God’s blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln*

“Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon lives.  If He lays His hands upon a marriage, it lives.  If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.”
– Howard W. Hunter

“A wise seminary teacher and writer once wrote that Latter-Day Saint parents often teach the gospel as though it were only a set of rules, standards, and ‘thou shalt nots’, never clearly explaining why we should live the commandments, failing to introduce their children to the Law-Giver himself, not imparting to them a testimony and love of the Savior.  I do not want to make that mistake.  If we truly love God and Christ, the gospel becomes far more than just a set of rules.  It becomes a fountain of living waters, the one true source of life and peace.  I want you to drink of those living waters.”
– Bruce D. Porter

“Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.”
– Dallin H. Oaks

“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.  We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.”
– Brigham Young

“We have been sent into the world to do good to others; and in doing good to others we do good to ourselves.  We should always keep this in view, the husband in reference to his wife, the wife in reference to her husband, the children in reference to their parents, and the parents in reference to their children.  There is always opportunity to do good to one another.”
– Lorenzo Snow

“Perhaps the most universal regret dying patients expressed was that they wished they had spent more time with the people they love.”
– Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of another, given in love with an unmistakable warning.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“Parents are the master teachers. They do their most effective teaching by example. The family circle is the ideal place to demonstrate and learn kindness, forgiveness, faith in God, and every other practicing virtue of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
– Dallin H. Oaks

“Good homes are still the best source of good humans.”
– Neal A. Maxwell

“In God’s eternal plan, salvation is an individual matter; exaltation is a family matter.”
– Russell M. Nelson

“Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“Parenthood is a sacred privilege, and depending upon faithfulness, it can be an eternal blessing. The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is that a man and his wife and their children can be happy at home.”
– Boyd K. Packer

“The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with the breakdown of the family. The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality. The family promotes an atmosphere where religious observance can flourish. There is indeed ‘beauty all around when there’s love at home’.”
– Quentin L. Cook

“The older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life; it is the key to eternal happiness.”
– L. Tom Perry

“Often we assume that [the people around us] must know how much we love them. But we should never assume, we should let them know… We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us.”
– Thomas S. Monson